Thursday, August 22, 2013

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce the latest GA release ofMySQL Utilities. This release marks a milestone of concentrated effort toexpand the use of utilities in more diverse installations through improvedrobustness, error handling, and quality.

Many Improvements

There are number such enhancements in this release. In this post we willhighlight a few of the more significant improvements.

The --exclude option for mysqldbcopy and mysqldbexport now accept database patterns

Improved quoting of database, table, index names in SQL generation

External script return code checking for mysqlfailover, mysqlrpladmin

Slave thread state included in verbosity output of mysqlrplshow

The mysqldbimport utility can now read raw CSV files with headers

...and that's just a few of the many improvements in this release. While manyof these improvements have been filtering into the 1.2.X release over the lastyear, this release marks the first GA in that time frame.